Setting Quotes

1038 quotes by 887 authors

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in… — Janet Burroway
I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another.… — Peter Block
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells… — Ron Reagan
I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals. — Bonnie Blair
By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it. — Alex Steffen
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. — Elsa Maxwell
Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And itâ€™s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential… — Shawn Phillips
I highly recommend setting aside pockets of time during each day for solitude. You might have only five or ten minutes, but be alone and… — Mac Anderson
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting… — Desi Arnaz
WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most… — Herbert Wind
When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave… — W. C. Sellar
So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off… — Dan Buettner
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it… — Terry Eagleton
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there.… — David Abram
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar… — Kathryn Stockett
For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of… — Kevin J. Anderson
People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition. — Arthur Rubinstein
Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people… — danah boyd
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea… — Alexander Cockburn
Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world… — William J. Critchlow, Jr.

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